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Unexpected situations in public space. Questioning behavioural consensus. Exploring architectural affordances.
Archives for category: 2011
Participatory performance-choir as Process Institute at the Haus of World Cultures, Berlin.
We were commissioned to design and offer 4 collective tasks for all the members of the 4 Über Lebenskunst Klubs.
Making Noise happened on the #4 Klub, on May 31st. Participants were divided in 4 groups and each of the artists of the collective directed one section. Noises, words, sentences and questions overlap creating a sound piece narrative about social change, sustainability and media panic.
12.05.2011, 16:00 – 20:00 hours, Über Lebenskunst.Klub
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2011
Collective task #2 by Process Institute at Über Lebenskunst Klub, HKW, Berlin 07.04.11:
Stay together and discover the potential of your environment!
Collective task #1 at Über Lebenskunst Klub , HKW, Berlin 10.03.11:
How can we celebrate the reciprocal dependency of being?
ÜBER LEBENSKUNST created its Klub at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It is a platform that brings together numerous people who actively work for a sustainable world. The latest positions and strategies for the art of sustainable living (ÜBER LEBENSKUNST) are brought together there at the interface between art and cultural production, fashion, day-to-day research, civic involvement, architecture, sustainable design, urban gardening, environmental sciences, political activism and urban planning.
In this framework, Process Institute developed the 4 “Gemeinschaftsaufgaben” (collective tasks). These participatory tasks dealt with the motto of each Klub and offer challenges or unconventional goals to be done by the Klub participants. By this they experience physically and emotionally some of the discussed issues.
For Klub 1 Process Institute developed the Lebensmonument/Monument to living together with the Klub members. How can something as a monument, static, dead and imposing in its definition be celebrating life? The participants became the structure of a living choreographed organism in which everybody was involved, interconnected and interdependent to make things happen.
As part of Conversations in Silence (a five month research project with Bauhaus University MFA alumni and Kenyan artists hosted by the Goethe Institute in Nairobi 01.10.10-28.02.11) “Irene Izquierdo (ESP) worked site-specifically, choosing to commemorate a space rather than a time. Over the two weeks before the exhibition Irene visited Hilton Square daily, observing the way people interacted and did ‘business’. Perceiving this space as playing a unique role within the city, she orchestrated the performance ‘Celebrating Hilton Square’. This featured a selection of individuals from the square who honored the space in various ways including poems, songs and written texts. These have been collected in a small booklet which serves as a memory to the event, and a commemoration of the space.” Sam Hopkins
The work starts with favoring and helping perpetrate the intangible cultural heritage of the square by using the same strategies of making business and networking that occur there.
The installation consisted of the video documenting the event, towers of booklets and plants resembing the atmosphere at the so called “Hilton Square”.
